Three UK Men to Serve 13 Years for Phishing

Three individuals have been sentenced 13 years of jail time in the UK for carrying out cyberattacks on British and international banks. The men in question, Ayodeji John Kareem, 38, Vincent Alonge, 31, and Babatunde Fafore, 41, all plead guilty on July 8 to charges stemming from their arrests in...

Scareware Takedown By FBI, Int'l Authorities Results in Two Arrests

The FBI has made a major dent in the huge scareware and rogue antivirus problem that has been plaguing Internet users for years now, arresting two people and seizing dozens of computers, servers and bank accounts as part of a large-scale coordinated operation in twelve countries. The operation,...

Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia

Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia Hackers around the world are gaining more attention than usual in the last few months. Now Google has added another announcement to the pile that hundreds of Gmail accounts have been hacked recently. Now, Google affirms that the...

Gmail Phishing Attack

US-CERT is aware of public reports of a phishing attack that specifically targets US government and military officials' Gmail accounts. The attack arrives via an email sent from a spoofed address of an individual or agency known to the targeted user. The email contains a "view download" link that...

Robert X. Cringley (Security Expert) Credit Card Hacked !

Cringley's credit card was recently hacked. And if his card can be hacked, anyone's can. Like many cardholders, Cringley received a notification from his credit card company's fraud department, informing him that his card data was being used overseas, on an online dating website. A scammer used...

Updated MacDefender Malware Appears, No Longer Needs Password

There’s a newer version of the MacDefender scareware program that’s now showing up on various Web sites, and this one no longer requires a user to enter her administrator password during the installation process in order to complete the infection routine. The first variants of MacDefender began...

Mac OS X Mac Defender Malware Detection

Using the supplied credentials, Nessus has found evidence that a fake antivirus software named Mac Defender alternatively, MacDefender, MacGuard, MacProtector or MacSecurity is installed on the remote Mac OS X host. The software is typically installed by means of a phishing scam targeting Mac use...

Apple Plans Update to Address MacDefender Malware

Apple is planning to release an update specifically designed to protect users against the MacDefender malware that has been circulating for the last couple of weeks. The update for Mac OS X will automatically find and remove the malware on an infected machine and also will warn users if another...

Apple Mac Defender, MacProtector, and MacSecurity Fake Anti-Virus Software

Apple has released a security advisory related to the recent Mac fake anti-virus software. The most common names for this fake anti-virus software are MacDefender, MacProtector, and MacSecurity. This fake anti-virus software is the result of a phishing scam targeting Mac users that redirects them...

Bank of America Employee Sentenced Following ATM Scam

A former Bank of America employee was sentenced to twenty seven months in prison after installing software on the bank’s computers that allowed him to steal thousands of dollars from ATMs, according to an Associated Press report. Rodney Reed Caverly of Mint Hill, N.C. was ordered to pay $419,310....

New Facebook Scam : WTF I can't believe you're in this video !

New Facebook Scam : WTF I can't believe you're in this video ! If you happen to get a new wall post from your friend saying "WTF I can't believe you're in this vid" or "ROFL i cant believe youre tagged in this video" Its a new scam spreading on Facebook. Don't open or click on this link else it...

New Facebook worm propagating : VERIFY MY ACCOUNT , Video Explanation of code !

New Facebook worm propagating : VERIFY MY ACCOUNT , Video Explanation of Code In the past hour a new application has begun spreading on Facebook which has found an exploit in the existing sharing system. Whatever you do, don't click the link described below. The system is pretty straight forward...

"Real" Osama bin Laden Death Photos? Yeah, They're Fake, Too.

You’ve heard about the tidal wave of spam e-mail and scammy Web links that followed the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Special Forces on Sunday. But what about the latest round of e-mails offering death photos of the slain terrorist leader? Well, turns out they’re fake, also. Security firm...

Phisher Hooks Condé Nast, Reels in $8 Million

Condé Nast was baited in a phishing scam that netted a Texas man nearly $8 million in company funds, according to published reports. According to a complaint filed in Manhattan District Court by the U.S. Attorney’s Office last week, the publishing giant was fooled by a single phishing e-mail sent...

FBI busts $465,000 credit card scam !

Federal investigators arrested and indicted a former Bridgeport resident who they say orchestrated a scam in which foreign nationals applied for and received credit cards on which they charged up to $465,000 worth of goods before leaving the country with the banks holding the tab. A federal grand...

Waves of Tsunami Spam Continue

There has been no respite from the tsunami of scam-emails taking advantage of the natural disaster-nuclear meltdown combo punch that is hitting Japan, according to research from Kaspersky Labs. As pleas for charitable donations for victims of the magnitude 9 earthquake in northern Japan fill the...

Experts Warn Of Japan Earthquake, Tsunami Spam

As the Pacific Rim braces for deadly Tsunami’s spawned by today’s magnitude 8.9 earthquake in Japan, the SANS Internet Storm Center says users should be on the lookout for a different kind of Tsunami: scam e-mail and Web pages looking to turn curiosity about the events in Japan into illicit gain...

IC3: Internet Crime Up in 2010

Internet crime is on the rise again according to a report recently released by The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3. The organization said last week that it received the second-highest number of complaints in its decade long history in 2010. Released on February 24, the 2010 Internet Crime...

New Phishing Scam Targets PayPal Users

Customers of Internet money transfer service PayPal are being targeted in an aggressive email phishing scam that is masquerading as an urgent security warning, a familiar scam for PayPal customers. Users of PayPal are receiving an email message from them that claims to be an urgent security...

Online dating sites targeted by hackers during Valentine !

Consumers are urged to be aware of fake online profiles, which may be used to gain the trust of online users looking love to scam them out of money. Using singles and dating websites, scam artists are pretending to be people looking for relationships. They often steal photos from social networkin...